Unraveling the mystery of blue straggler stars

The globular cluster M53, imaged here by the Hubble Space Telescope, is home to mostly older stars – but also a population of strange, young-looking blue straggler stars. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA Meet HD 65907, an imposter. It’s a star that appears far too young for its age. Astronomers have finally cracked the case of this … Read more

‘Silo’ Season 2 ‘Descent’: The mystery spirals deeper as we learn Solo’s real name… or do we?

Secret identities are fun for superheroes but not necessarily for suspicious and evasive characters on “Silo”, such as Steve Zahn’s Solo character. This childlike oddball whom Juliette discovered locked in the server vault in the abandoned Silo 17 has been tap-dancing around his backstory for the past three weeks, leading to all sorts of speculation … Read more